In the second event of our Poetry and Poetics reading and discussion series, Maynooth English Department is delighted to host multi-award-winning poet Philip Metres, who will read from, and talk about, his new poetry collection, Shrapnel Maps. The event will include an interactive Q&A with the poet, featuring questions from Maynooth students and attendees of the webinar. This event is organised by Dr Catherine Gander and Dr Karl O'Hanlon.
About the book:
Writing into the wounds and reverberations of the Israel/Palestine conflict, Philip Metres’ fourth book of poems,Shrapnel Maps, is at once elegiac and activist, an exploratory surgery to extract the slivers of cartography through palimpsest and erasure. A wedding in Toura, a suicide bombing in Jerusalem, uneasy interactions between Arab and Jewish neighbours in University Heights, the expulsion of Palestinians in Jaffa, another bombing in Gaza:Shrapnel Maps traces the hurt and tender places, where political noise turns into the voices of Palestinians and Israelis. Working with documentary flyers, vintage postcards, travelogues, cartographic language, and first-person testimonies, Shrapnel Maps ranges from monologue sonnets to prose vignettes, polyphonics to blackouts, indices to simultaneities, as Palestinians and Israelis long for justice and peace, for understanding and survival.
This event will take place via Zoom webinar. Registered attendees will be sent the secure link the day before the event.
For more details and to register, please click the following link.